A schoolboy was left 'sobbing' after easyJet staff 'forced him to ditch his wheelchair battery or they wouldn't fly him home from Disneyland' - despite jetting out with it. Melissa Higgins took her family on a three-day trip to Disneyland Paris funded by Make A Wish Foundation with her 14-year-old son Anthony (AJ) Higgins on August 27.

Anthony has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive genetic disorder causing muscle weakness, that leaves him unable to walk. Melissa says his £10,000 power-assisted wheelchair is his 'life' as it gives him independence. The mum-of-four says a pilot refused to allow the wheelchair battery onto the flight back from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Manchester airport on August 29 as the wattage was not visible.

When her partner Christopher Harvey, 36, tried t

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